PHALAROPE. ii 



in their stomachs were found the remains of Monoculi and Onisei ; but 

 what appeared singular, the male had a great deficiency of feathers 

 on the belly, and from the great difficulty of driving them from the 

 tufts where the nests were supposed to be, it would seem probable, 

 that the males principally perform the business of incubation. 



Pl. clxiii. 



A. — Phalaropus hyperboieus, Ind. Orn. ii. 775. B. 



Red Phalarope, Gen. Syn. v. 272. Var. A. — PI. in frontispiece. Orn. Diet. Supp. 



Length eight inches and a half. Bill black, slender; plumage 

 on all the upper parts clouded brown, surrounding the breast, which 

 is paler; chin white; belly and vent the same ; on each side of the 

 neck a large, irregular, deep ferruginous red spot ; the greater wing 

 coverts tipped with white, forming a bar ; quills black; tail cine- 

 reous, but the two middle feathers dark, nearly black ; legs dusky ; 

 toes furnished with a lobated membrane on the sides, as in the first 

 described. — In the collection of Sir Joseph Banks. Found between 

 Asia and America, from lat. 66. to 69. 



One in Mr. Donovan's collection had the head nearly black ; the 

 chin white; the whole neck and sides of the breast red, but the 

 middle of the last cinereous ; belly white ; upper part of the body 

 dusky : an egg, exhibited with the bird, was much in colour like 

 that of the Common Plover, but smaller. 



B. — Phalaropus fuscus, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 776. Bris. vi. p. 18. Id. 8vo. ii. 363. Lin. 



Trans, xii. 535. 

 Tringa fusca rostro tenui, Klein, Av. 151. 3. 

 Tringa Ipbata, Brun. Orn. p. 51. N. 171. 

 Coot-footed Tringa, Edw. pl.46. 

 Brown Phalarope, Gen. Syn. v. 274. Arct. Zool. ii. 214. 



Size of the others. Crown of the head black : plumage greatly 

 similar, but most of the feathers, on the upper parts, fringed with 



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